Campus Conversations Project Coordinator

About the role

The Sorensen Center for Moral and Ethical Leadership seeks a Campus Conversations Project Coordinator to educate students about engaging in respectful, meaningful conversations that dignify individuals, even while discussing challenging current topics. This position will facilitate the day-to-day operations of a campus-wide dialogue program designed to promote empathy, mutual understanding, and constructive engagement across differences.

Responsibilities

• Recruit, train, supervise, mentor, and provide ongoing support to approximately 10–15 student facilitators and leaders.
• Teach and model reflective structured dialogue practices, including active listening, curiosity, respectful questioning, perspective-taking, and constructive engagement.
• Plan, organize, implement, and evaluate at least three campus-wide and 15 classroom-based Campus Conversations events each semester.
• Coordinate event logistics, including topics, schedules, rooms, facilitators, participants, technology, communications, registration, attendance, accessibility, and follow-up.
• Develop partnerships with faculty, academic departments, student organizations, and campus programs to expand classroom and campus-wide participation.
• Coordinate the development, review, piloting, revision, and distribution of conversation guides.
• Support the development of an online learning module, including videos, readings, quizzes, activities, and learning-management-system content.
• Assist with program evaluation, surveys, data tracking, grant reporting, project records, budgets, purchasing, marketing, and continuous improvement.
• Attend and support campus-wide and classroom events, including occasional evening events.

Requirements

• A firm commitment to the mission of BYU.
• Bachelor’s degree related to public health, public administration, communication, education, social sciences, student affairs, or a related field.
• Experience in project coordination, event planning, student programming, higher education, community engagement, facilitation, training, or a related area.
• Commitment to promoting respectful dialogue, mutual understanding, belonging, dignity, and constructive engagement across differences.
• Ability to facilitate and model respectful, balanced, and appropriately neutral conversations about difficult and/or sensitive current topics.
• Ability to recruit, train, supervise, mentor, and provide feedback to student employees.
• Ability to plan, organize, implement, and evaluate multiple events and projects simultaneously.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree related to public health, public administration, communication, education, social sciences, student affairs, or a related field.
• 3+ years of relevant experience.
• Experience facilitating structured dialogue, deliberative discussion, conflict resolution, mediation, or conversations involving controversial topics.
• Experience recruiting, training, supervising, or mentoring college students.
• Knowledge of reflective structured dialogue, deliberative dialogue, conflict resolution, mediation, or related approaches.
• Knowledge of public health, health communication, polarization, civil discourse, social issues, or related areas.

Pay

Typical Starting Pay: $32.00 - $41.75 Pay Grade: 52. The actual compensation offered will take into consideration internal equity and may vary based on the candidate’s job-related experience, knowledge, skills, and other relevant factors. Candidates with very significant work-related experience may receive an offer higher than the posted typical range.

Schedule

Note: This is a part-time position (17.5) hours per week.

Benefits

• Employee assistance program, available to the employee and all members of their household.
• Access to the library.
• Free on‑campus parking.
• Free UTA pass.
• Discounts at the BYU Store and for many events at BYU.